Honey Extractor

Introducing Honey Extractor

Honey Extractor Plan

The honey
collected in the part of beehive that named as honey super. Normally, eight
till ten frames were filled in the honey supers. Honey bees
collect nectar in the honeycomb of a frame. Beekeeper takes honey supers from
the hives and extracting the honey when the supers are full. Just before
winterizing the hive, this will takes place in the fall.A rotating
wire basket installed in a drum of honey extractor. The uncapped combs are put
in the basket and then beekeeper turns the basket manually by hand or
automatically with aid of a motor. Because of centrifuge force, the honey will
file out from the combs on to the sides of drum.Below are
two common process to extract honey using honey extractor when harvest time
coming.

Frames Preparation

To get the
frames from the hive to the honey extractor, beekeeper will need certain
equipment. The standard equipment that used while harvest: Helmet or hat and
veil, gloves, a bee suit, etc. Other tools that needed while honey harvesting
is a smoker and hive tool, a hammer, trash bag, a wheel barrow, a sheet of
plywood to cover empty hive bodies and frame gripper.Pick the
supers from the hives and moved to the honey
extractor area. The important thing is to get the frames to the extracting
are without disturb the bees and then getting a honey room full of bees. For
this purpose, the bees need to be lightly smoked.Before
loosened each super as well, loosening the hive top with the hive tool and
hammer carefully. The honey ready to process on the honey extractor after the supers are collected and taken to the
honey house.

Extracting Process

Some
equipment need by beekeeper while extracting honey proceed. Main equipment
while honey extracting is, an uncapping tank, a five gallon plastic bucket, an
electric knife, a spatula, some wets rags and the honey extractor
itself.To keep the
floor clean and tidy after the process, put the old newspapers. Also put
plastic sheets down before, to keep honey on the floor of your honey house.Move the
frames in the wheelbarrow to the uncapping tank. It is better to place the tank
short as possible to the honey extractor, it will very helpful. Keep the
distances shortly possible while you need to move the honey from one place to
another.When the
frames are uncapped, they go into honey extractor and the honey will removed.
Then the extracted honey will run through a strainer from the honey extractor
into the bucket. Clean up the honey on the sides of the honey extractor by scraped it with the spatula. Now, honey ready to
bottling and then clean up.Previous
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